A U.S. university leads each of the four Engineering Research Centers that are sharing $74 million in National Science Foundation funding to address significant societal issues.
Not smoking provided the most protection from dying from all of the causes examined.
The researchers carried out a number of tests to see if specially trained sniffer dogs were able to reliably identify lung cancer compared with healthy volunteers and volunteers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and whether the results were still found with the presence of tobacco.
The handbook will serve as a comprehensive resource to help users clearly understand medical gas and vacuum systems requirements covered in the 2012 edition of NFPA 99, Health Care Facilities Code.
The serious violations include exposing workers to air contaminants including hexavalent chromium, cadmium, and methylene chloride.
The results suggest that reducing work hours for exercise or other health promotion doesn’t necessarily lead to decreased productivity—and may even lead to increased productivity.
Tobacco ads would be banned and smoking prohibited in hotels, restaurants, nightclubs, long-distance trains, and cruise ships if a bill prepared by the Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development is adopted.
The public workshop will take place Sept. 16 in Gaithersburg, Md., and seek to identify key issues in the development and evaluations of these vaccines.
The app, available in English and Spanish, combines heat index data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with the user’s location to determine necessary protective measures.
Women who used anti-depressant medication—particularly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors—had a 39 percent increased risk of stroke.
When hazardous drugs must be prepared and administered, there are workplace best practices that can minimize potentially harmful exposure. These include the use of engineering controls and personal protective equipment.
Malaria rates among members of the U.S. military who were born in western Africa were 44 times higher during 2002-2010 than rates for members who were born in the United States, authors of a paper being published in the September issue of CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal report.
The independent, nonfederal, volunteer body of public health and prevention experts has determined that commercial host liability, otherwise known as dram shop liability, can be an effective intervention for reducing alcohol-related harms.
NIOSH crash tests revealed the possibility of head injury if a worker’s head strikes the cabinets immediately above or behind them, and noted that vehicle structural failures can be a contributing factor in adverse outcomes of EMS crashes.
The Guidelines include recommendations on musculoskeletal injuries, aerobic exercise for knee arthritis, and postsurgical rehabilitation.
The study found that health care workers perceived surfaces as safer to touch than patient skin, in spite of research that has proven touching one contaminated surface can spread bacteria to up to the next seven surfaces touched.
The new bacterium, not yet named, has been identified in more than 25 people and found in black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Severe stings occur most frequently in infants and children, and untreated cases can be fatal.
The national health reform plan announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon will deliver an extra $175 billion to public hospitals through 2030.
About half of the states are at risk of dengue fever outbreaks, the analysis of CDC and National Climatic Data Center data indicates.